 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series. My name is Leo Sononos Osiris and today we're going to continue on with this X and Y team that we started playing yesterday on the channel. We're going to finish up the week of it before we move into something new next week on the channel and as always if you do have any preferences on anything you would like to see played on the channel do let me know down in the description below and I'll see what I can do and make sure that we try and cover as many of the suggestions that we get as possible. But just to recap the team we've got Ivel Tozernius, Serena Incineroar, Landerous and Tapifini. As always the team is down in the description below. There's a roll pace, poke pace, try it out and if you do let me know what your thoughts are on the team. We didn't see very much of Ivel so yesterday so I'm hoping in today's episode we will see a little bit more from the bird and as always if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to leave a like on the video, do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and as always like I always say leave your comments down below just let me know what your thoughts are on the team in general what your thoughts are on the battles or what you would like to see played going forward in the Ultra series. I'm just looking around now because I'm a bit conscious my DS battery is on red and I don't think I've got it I don't think I've got a charger anywhere handy so I'm hoping that we can get through at least this episode without any problems actually what's this what is this is this a DS one I don't think it is I think this is just a generic USB charger that's not good oh wait wait I have my magic bag my magic world's bag where I keep everything there we go you see always prepares oh not really because if I was always prepared it wouldn't be red right we'll plug this bad boy in and make sure that we have DS action throughout this episode just be helpful and there we go all charged and ready to go so we're just looking for our first opponent now uh hopefully it doesn't take too long to find them battle spot seems to be quiet today and you know what today I think is today the day well when I'm recording this it's the 15th of October so a month day we're going to have sword and shield I cannot wait it's going to be so exciting and there's lots going on in between then and then and now so we've got um I've actually got my parents coming to visit which would be really nice they haven't seen them for a little while so they come down to visit me tash and Thea uh so that'd be awesome that'll be like in a week or two's time uh hopefully going up to the pokemon center in London with scott um because there's a pop-up stall there in Westfield shopping center it should pretty cool and I think it's like going on for a month and so it'd be nice to pop up there see him as well events I don't think there are any events coming up very soon I think they're into November before there's an mss in Austin that I think I'm going to try and go to um so events not too many really um and then and then it'll be sword and shield out so yeah hopefully everything kind of ticks around just why I'm missing something there's something big happening that I'm like I'm missing out what it is but yeah we've got the flinch squad circuit starting the episode we'll be up this evening of the first round feature match we've got angel from Spain the angel 17 19 rated player um and playing oh variant it's spain rain so we'll go into team preview so spain rain it is a very similar variant to what uh alex and eric ryan at worlds and it's been running recently as well where you see caught on it over the ferrithorn but uh the variation of that team with the ferrithorn there it has got kayaga riquaza in cinderal here tabcoco and the nai ligo so nai ligo causing us a few problems of course lander is doing really nice things in this matchup here so I think we want to bring lander us uh and cinderal for the double intimidate the lander us gives us nice options against things like nai ligo in particular uh tabcoco as well uh eval tool is really good here against um kayaga puts a lot of pressure on there it can deal with the nai ligo to a certain extent you've got to be careful about being doubled into I think we need zelius in this matchup and do we want incineral or do we want finny it'd be nice to have a switch in for the kayaga but I think we need to have incineral if I'm totally honest with you here and because the ferrithorn otherwise is going to be really difficult to deal with so we want to try and get rid of the kayaga early doors and then it opens the door for incineral to deal with the ferrithorn when it does hit the field it's going to be a tough matchup it's going to be tough there's a really well put together team um but it's not one that's not winnable I think if we just play well enough then we can we can kind of overcome it so um putting the pressure on certain things and lander has really helped out in that respect you know we might see fake out pressure here we don't we see nai ligo kayaga and this is a pretty easy turn for us just to go um earthquake and snarl and we put damage out onto the field um and we get rid of the nai ligo with the double up because you'd expect the nai ligo to be um focusashed and even if it is a variant that has the z move it's not taken down you're out and if it is a z move then it goes down to um earthquake so I mean we don't have too much to worry about here um and an ice beam after a snarl is not going to take anything down so I think we're probably all right just to click that earthquake button and then go for that snarl nai ligo gonna be saved for later on which makes a lot of sense we're gonna see incinero come out onto the field we might see the kayaga protect um and that's that's totally fine but we don't okay so we'll get some damage onto the incinero which is nice get some damage onto the kayaga as well also good to help weaken like origin pulse and ice beam and then this snarl coming out on top of that which is really the more useful of the the two attacks here especially for that kayaga um so kayaga going for an ice beam and it's going to be into landers but we should take this after minus one oh we don't take it what come on that's where the calcs come in okay so that's not ideal at all um right losing landers like that's bad as well especially when nai ligos in the back um okay we'll bring in incinero we're just gonna be really difficult now to deal with nai ligo i have to trade fake out i think yeah i'm gonna fake out the kayaga and i'm gonna bring in zonius here because i think you wouldn't have to try and get a geomancer if i can the problem is if we see the opposing incinero you turn out and then nai ligo come back onto the field that would be really bad because then we've got no way to deal with it because i think the best way for us to deal with nai ligo now is gonna be with erie bell to out onto the field at the same time not switching it in um kayaga gonna protect okay we're probably gonna see you turn nai ligo coming back in you know when you walk in like down the wrong road you walk down the wrong road and you just know but you keep going anyway you think it'll be fine work out and it's not it's not gonna be fine nothing's gonna work out although i think we're gonna have to be cheeky here because i think we're gonna have to try and um we're gonna have to try we moderate options do you double the incinero that's what i would think my opponent would probably do so it makes me think we could potentially maybe get a geomancer up maybe and go for you turn into the nai ligo break that sash then geomancy and we'll probably lose incinero to the double up here wow okay con a little crush coming out um and this will probably be into incinero i'd imagine unless you go into the zonius thinking let's get some big damage off there but they're doing this because they've got ferrithorn in the back i would imagine they want to get rid do they get the way to do it isn't it you get rid of the threats you set up that wind condition uh you get the beast boost as well which makes things even more difficult for eval to do anything especially attack boost yeah that's not ideal we kind of got a hope that this kyle will go for an origin pulse and it misses but it's likely with how good this team is consistency wise it's got scald this is not going well this is where finny would have been a little bit better okay the what's about i mean it's better than origin pulse it does less damage okay all right and then we'll bring eval to live well i mean we're gonna see probably clear smog right what does it have clear smog i think back if i'm thinking that alex is set i'm sure it has like no because he didn't have power gem so he probably does have clear smog i imagine um but i mean we can snarl for sure and then i think just moonblast moonblast the nilego yeah kyle gonna go out and incinero yeah and i'm just hoping both our pokemon can take an attack and the nilego protects all right so that's if we dazzle there if we dazzle that would have been i think we just got a double attack again to be honest like we can't protect eval so so if we get faked out into eval and they double eval that puts us in a really bad position going to the next turn i think we've got a moonblast the nilego and go for a snarl and hope they go for the eval no okay that's that's bad but we actually had speed the nilego which is kind of interesting okay let's we see a trick room here super bad yeah i mean that's not the worst thing in the world really you can go for another snarl and i think we just protect zernius this turn because we haven't protected zernius at all we've just been attacking with it so i'm hoping my opponent just thinks well he's not protecting it let's just go for it we'll get another snarl off that would put us in a way better position let's we see clear smoke so this is a snarl coming out from the incineral and then we can maybe foul play the nilego we get this one off yeah because we actually under speed it so we'll be able to maybe knock it out maybe maybe i don't know minus one now so let's see where it goes proc and bury on the incineral yeah that's a bit annoying because if you dazzle the turn it switched in we wouldn't have to be dealing with this we're gonna say power gem it's not doing too much all right let's go for that foul play i mean we could suck a punch because i suck a punch i suck a punch and uh um a dazzle will get the nilego 100 percent here maybe not a dazzle he velto avoids the snarl he could have done with that onto the zernius okay see power gem again into velto take that like a champ dazzling game come on let's see minus one uh plus one sorry we don't get it but i mean we're pressuring the thing is like we're pressuring that nilego now with with the sucker punch so we can definitely go for the sucker there um i don't know if it attacks though now i think it might might not attack so we could potentially go for an oblivion wing into the incineral and just go for another dazzling game because i think the nilego either protects or reverses the trickery to maybe set up the ray coming back in okay incineral going out it's a bit great if it's like required though because we'll get a chunk of chunk of health back the nilego might be trying to reverse the trick room though i'm hoping that's what it does or tries to do let's see oh come on it's verathon okay so the blooming wing not bad here actually because we'll get some oh it does nothing so weak power gem again not going for it we could have suckered there oh man it's gone from bad to worse yeah and only being on plus one it's a verathon incineral gonna come back in now i don't think we've got a way to beat the verathon we can get rid of the nilego but what do we got as well two turns of trick room left and it's an easy fake out onto eval tol now and i don't think a moon blast is gonna get as zonius the only thing we can potentially do but i don't even think you would do this like you fake out eval tol like you're not gonna double into eval tol no way and i don't think we take i can go for a farplane to the farathon and i'll just have to protect zonius because otherwise we just take a jarra ball just hope you fake out the zonius for some reason which you wouldn't oh we survived it okay we might actually be in this now i can't i can't believe that we took that eval tol imaginary sash okay and this changes things quite a little bit so well it doesn't clean get the incineral that's the question because a foul play hmm i don't know if a foul play in a dazzle will get the farathon and the thing is do you protect the farathon this turn expecting maybe a double into it or we could just moon blast the incineral um hmm i think we're gonna have to go for the dazzle and the foul play like i really want to go moon blast foul play into farathon but i'm gonna go for it if you protect the farathon fair play no you don't this should be enough to get the farathon and then maybe we've got enough with zonius to gotta hope this foul play takes down the farathon though as well but we lose the incineral are we losing veltel um but we still got a zonius taking us down to the wire have we got enough to beat the kayoga though okay this is fine this is fine i don't mind a u-turn i would prefer this to a flare blitz a hundred percent we're still plus one can we deal with the kayoga incineral let's do this right kayana's got a lot of health it's got a lot of health it's got way too much health i think that all kind of hinges on uh whether a dazzling gleam is going to be enough to take down the incineral if it is like we protect this turn if it's enough to get the incineral i think we can win this because i think we'll take at least one attack from kayoga so protect this is where like substitute on kayoga would be phenomenal wouldn't it you just stop here and then it's like gg good game all right fake out obviously i think origin pulls oh scald it is scald okay right right let's go for it we have to go for the dazzle we have to go for the dazzle we have to hope that it takes down the incineral come on can we take the scald come on we don't want to burn either because a burn would be bad for us burn we are gonna win how we've done that how how we've done that i don't know but i'm just gonna say good game to my opponent and great game to eval to man that was tough that was tough but we did it we did it we did it i think if my opponent had protected the ferrithorn that turn expecting maybe the double n uh and then taking down our eval tol with incineral with a u turn that would have been the play and then you lock it up then um but it's easy to say these things in hindsight but great win for us to kick off with today we'll jump into our next one it's been a bit of a slog that one so hopefully our next one is a little bit um a little bit quicker but um i think like really good example to show like just don't give up even like when i felt like uh night league was kind of overtaking us here um it feels like you want to give up but we got scott up next from the united kingdom um let's hop straight into team preview see what he's got it's a prerogli okay so we've got zernius and moongus we've got tapu finni incineral dusk maiden and cross matt and prerogli prerogli uh it has got that divine defiant ability so we need to be very careful around that does have fake out as well um there's lots of stuff to stop pausing zernius setting up you've got a moongus you've got finni potentially wrought on um incineral i think um this is quite tough because obviously want to bring out fake out support in zernius but uh for zernius with incineral but i don't want to um i don't want to proc the defiant ability on the prerogli um let's bring finni in let's bring zernius do we bring serena maybe serena could be good here serena's good at dealing with things like uh tapu finni um i definitely want eval tul in this like do i want eval tul eval tul doesn't do great in this matchup to be honest like incineral is better um just for the lake and coming in with a bit of fake out support do i want eval tul or do i want serena i think serena's probably a little bit better in general yeah let's go for that it's gonna be a tough one because it's just a tricky matchup but if we can get rid of the prerogli and make things a lot easier for us uh we've got hays as well with our finni to help against any potential setup from that zernia pausing zernius um we're not gonna see the prerogli come out so i think we've got a nice we've got a nice opportunity here to bring in serena and go geomancy get around the fake out yeah they're probably gonna geomancy as well but i mean like one of our options is just go hays and protect azernius but they might expect that so we'll go into our serena and we'll geomancy and hope that they go for the fake out and maybe not geomancy because they fear the they fear the potential hays coming out but they so we'll get our geomancy off they do go for the fake out if they haven't geomancy here i think we can close this one down pretty quickly but it will depend what they've done and even if they have geomancy here it's not the end of the world because we do have help in hand which kind of boosts our attack a little bit more than what my opponent can do uh they go for the geomancy as well and we are the fastest zernius so one of the things we could potentially do is switch into um how do we just attack because we could potentially we could just we could faint the zernius for sure and dazzle on moonblast i mean that's not a bad idea if we faint in moonblast hope that they protect no they're not going to okay now if we take a moonblast and a flare blitz it's not going to be ideal for us at all so we don't want to lose our zernius and we do get a special attack drop which is pretty huge for us doesn't lean coming out that's all right and we'll take a flare blitz from this incineral but serena oh no it's fine man okay now i think help in hand dazzling game should get both now the zernius could protect this turn but i think we're the threat of faint it's probably not gonna we just need to hope we can take down this incineral with help in hand does it goes for the protect now help in hand dazzle is it gonna get the incineral yay okay that's fine and now what comes in and cross my all right it's not gonna ultra burst at all like it's just not is it but we do have finny we've got incineral to help deal with it what they're gonna have in the back because we can get rid of we can definitely get rid of the zernius here so we could just help in hand dazzle again i think that's not a bad play we're gonna outspeed the opposing zernius um and just gets much damage onto this and across me as possible and once the zernius is down makes our lives a lot easier so there's a helping hand coming out we're not going to see the ultra burst just yet it will ultra burst once zernius goes down there i would imagine are you kidding are you actually kidding going for the double protect is the only play you've got you could have switched out i mean that really that sucks a lot like that that's really not cool um i mean what what can you say what can you do hey hit double protect hit it so much you know every time i need it and go for it i never get it but who's complaining they they're not gonna go for it now are they i mean all we can try and do is go for a fake out and a power whip into it i think we've got it we've got to uh but the thing is though we can't do that because um serena will just go down i think you you take serena down if you can with with ultra and a cross ma which is really annoying um you could go help in hand flablets into zernius and i can't roar at this point okay zernius switching out i'll be finny coming in all right ultra burst yeah it's gonna go for the serena and this match has got way more difficult i don't know what to say i really don't i'm like i'm sorry if i'm not really talking very much now i just like i just think double protect it shouldn't never really happened shouldn't be a mechanic but i mean we you've got to deal with these things you can't really be too um too mad about these sort of things they are part of the game of course will you turn into the lacrosse ma hopefully we can get something off there goes for the protective course we'll go for an itch as madness into the finny probably going to see like what we know we'll probably see an itch as madness into our incineroar so put us in a power range okay um i mean either or here we can go got icy wind and then try that u-turn again but we'll probably lose finny now i'd imagine and i don't know if u-turn's gonna be enough here's the thing move we're gonna have to cut cut cut cut cut i mean the other thing we could have done was go for a help in hand moon blast into the lacrosse ma if we expected my opponent to go for the double protect but i just i don't know i think that's too risky as well because we have boosted zernius unchecked so i don't know um so it's into the finny we will lose it of course um itch as madness coming out i mean we're probably in we're probably in moon blast range and i don't think well will the fly blitz take down the zernius i don't know because i don't think we can beat the finny to be honest if a fly blitz takes down the zernius of course i think like we've got every chance to maybe close this one out but the finny's still got its berry and we've just locked into linking fly blitz on finny because i'm not even paying attention i'm just clicking buttons there we go hopefully this takes us down you know i really hope it does um yeah there we go forget it forget it good game scott i'll say that through greater teeth because i just i don't really yeah not good game but good game to you my friend not good game for us um i'm not being unsportsmanship but you know that one turn turn the tide but never mind we'll end it there we'll end on that note we had a really good game game one nice and clean and then we come into that one and then things go like that but i think the thing to take away from this is you're gonna get games like that it's kind of rising above it and just forget about it coming out on the other side of it and then just moving on because stuff like that in pokemon it's dumb it will happen and what can you do about it you can't do anything i'm going to leave you on that note have a great day my friends have and i'll see you all tomorrow for another one so until then take care and bye bye